(10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – other millennia) (Pleistocene, Paleolithic – 10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – other millennia) Beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch. ... (9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – other millennia) Events The south area of Çatalhöyük. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ...

Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch.

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Events

• Circa 9000 BC– Mediterranean - Settling on Mediterranean isles started
• Circa 8700 BC–8400 BC– Britain - Star Carr site in Yorkshire, Britain inhabited by Maglemosian peoples
• Circa 8500 BC– Britain - Neolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland
• Circa 8350 BC– Middle East - Neolithic settlement at Jericho
• Circa 8300 BC– Britain - Nomadic hunters arrive in England
• Circa 8000 BC– Norway - Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
• Circa 8000 BC– Africa - Earliest recorded African stone engravings, in the Apollo 1 cave.

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Environmental changes

• Circa 8000 BC– World - Rising Sea
• Circa 8000 BC– World - Cometary showers coincide with a close passage of Venus
• Circa 8000 BC– Antarctica - long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
• Circa 8000 BC– Asia - rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming
• Circa 8000 BC– World - Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time
• Circa 8000 BC– North America - The glaciers were receding and by 8,000 B.C. the Wisconsin had withdrawn completely.
• Circa 8000 BC– World - Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt takes place in several regions
• Circa 8000 BC– Atlantis - existed before this time, according to Plato

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Inventions and discoveries

• Circa 8000 BC– Mesopotamia - Agriculture in Mesopotamia
• Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey
• Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Domestication of sheep and goats
• Circa 8000 BC– Asia - Evidence of domestication of dogs from wolves
• Circa 8000 BC– World - Alleged transatlantic trade in tobacco between Africa and South America
• Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia belong to hunter-gatherer societies
• Circa 8000 BC– Middle East - Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran
• Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods, a three-dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory system and medium of exchange
• Circa 8000 BC– Exchange of goods may represent the earliest pseudo-writing technology

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Cultural landmarks

• World - Humanity officially enters the Stone Age
• World - Total world population may be under 10 million